Strip Counties That Oppose Mask Mandates of Medicaid, Medicare Funds
As I see it, you break it, you own it. Putnam County (and any other county that refuses to enforce a governor’s order relating to infectious disease) should not be eligible for any additional taxpayer funded COVID-19 rescue funds that may be distributed to local governments.
Putnam County should not be eligible for any taxpayer-funded Medicaid and Medicare reimbursements for hospitalized COVID patients.
No one is above the law. And that includes laws relating to control of infectious disease.
Judith Sage
Mount Kisco
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